EVERYMAN’S ENCYCLOPÆDIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21544, 16 January 1932, Page 4

EVERYMAN’S ENCYCLOPÆDIA

“ Everyman’s Encyclopaedia.” Volumes 7 and 8; " Everyman’s World Atlas." Uniform with Encyclopaedia. London: J. M. Dent and Sons. (Each vol. 5s 6d net, .Atlas 8s 6d net). “Everyman’s Encyclopaedia” continues; efficiently upon Its way,, to twelve-volume completion with the publication of the volumes entitled - respectively “ Hag-Jas,” “ JasAlas.” Each volume contains about 768 , pages,’ or more than' half a million words, not to mention innumerable illustrations in the form of line drawings, photographic reproductions and sketch maps. Volume VIII has an especial in? terest for New Zealand in that it contains a concise description of the Maori race and its history. This article is necessarily couched in the most general: terms, and could scarcely be described as comprehensive, but for the general reader overseas it covers the ground; and a useful bibliography is appended; Another interesting article in this volume refers in appreciative terms to Katherine Mansfield, who “ combined detailed and zestful observation of objects with a slowly-maturing philosophy of tolerance,” and whose early death “was a severe blow to literature in general and to the short-story form in particular.” The World Atlas

The encyclopaedia now exceeds its original twelve-volume project by one volume, containing a world atlas. This excellent publication, which is uniform in size and binding, makes an adequate geographical reference work for all ordinary purposes The atlas comprises 224 pages of coloured maps, including 27 pages of world maps variously showing physical features, temperature, rainfall, density of population, races, religions, languages, world .time, and eo on. The maps of continents and countries occupy, 197 pages and are grouped into Europe (three sections), Asia,. Africa, America, and Polar regions. On the map of New Zealand the division is made into counties, a system which invites some slight inaccuracies that occur. Thie “World Atlas,” however, is a most valuable publication, and so far as -we are aware has no rival at a price not meat sured in guineas. The index, containing 35,000 entries, serves well the purpose of a gazeteer. V A. L. F.